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Aug 7, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Ana Hadnes Bruder |Ulrich Worm |Benjamin Beck |Michelle Mayer
The Network and Information Security 2 Directive (EU)
2022/2555 ("NIS2") entered into force on 16 January
2023. NIS2 sets cyber rules for organizations whose services are
considered essential or important for maintaining critical societal
and economic activities, such as ensuring the flow of energy or
financial transactions. As a Directive, NIS2 must be transposed
into the national laws of the EU Member States before it can take
direct effect.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Benjamin Beck |Ana Hadnes Bruder |Ulrich Worm
[co-authors: Amelie Ksinsik, Michelle Mayer]The Network and Information Security 2 Directive (EU) 2022/2555 ("NIS2") entered into force on 16 January 2023. NIS2 sets cyber rules for organizations whose services are considered essential or important for maintaining critical societal and economic activities, such as ensuring the flow of energy or financial transactions. As a Directive, NIS2 must be transposed into the national laws of the EU Member States before it can take direct effect.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Ana Hadnes Bruder |Ulrich Worm |Aymeric de Moncuit |Oliver Yaros |Mark A. Prinsley |Konstantin von Werder | +3 more
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Ana Hadnes Bruder |Ulrich Worm |Benjamin Beck |Livia Crepaldi Wolf
On February 13 2024, the European Data Protection Board
("EDPB") adopted an opinion on the concept of a data
controller's main establishment under Article 4(16)(a) of the
General Data Protection Regulation
("GDPR") and whether the one-stop-shop
mechanism can be relied upon by organisations to communicate with
just one European supervisory data protection authority
("SA") about GDPR compliance rather than
multiple SAs in up to twenty-seven countries across the European
Union.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Richard Assmus |Brian Nolan |Ulrich Worm |Benjamin Beck
Other Author: Oliver Jones, Trainee
Solicitor
On 20 December 2023, the UK Supreme Court unanimously held that
UK patent legislation does not permit an AI system to be named as
the "inventor" in a patent application. In doing so, the
UK Supreme Court reaffirmed earlier findings from the UK courts and
UK Intellectual Property Office
("UKIPO") that a patent's inventor
must be a natural person.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Richard Assmus |Brian Nolan |Ulrich Worm |Benjamin Beck |Mark A. Prinsley |Oliver Yaros | +5 more
On 20 December 2023, the UK Supreme Court unanimously held that UK patent legislation does not permit an AI system to be named as the "inventor" in a patent application. In doing so, the UK Supreme Court reaffirmed earlier findings from the UK courts and UK Intellectual Property Office ("UKIPO") that a patent's inventor must be a natural person.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Ana Hadnes Bruder |Oliver Yaros |David Simon |Ulrich Worm |Dominique Leipzig |Rajesh De | +3 more
The European Parliament adopted a Resolution on 11 May 2023 against the adoption of an EU adequacy decision for the US based on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). The Resolution comes after an analysis by the European Parliament of the Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards For United States Signals Intelligence Activities (EO 14086), which was adopted in the US in order to implement the DPF (for more details, see our previous Legal Update).
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May 17, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Oliver Yaros |David Simon |Ana Hadnes Bruder |Mark A. Prinsley |Benjamin Beck |Ulrich Worm | +3 more
Not every infringement of the EU GDPR automatically grants data subjects the right to compensation under Article 82.1 That is the key takeaway of a decision dated 4 May 2023 of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) (Österreichische Post case, C-300/21).
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Mar 27, 2023 | 
lexblog.com | Ulrich Worm |Benjamin Beck
Benjamin Beck is an associate in Mayer Brown’s Düsseldorf office and a member of the Intellectual Property practice. PublicationsPost GDPR Enforcement in Germany — A Sneak Peek, in: Privacy & Data Protection Journal (PDP), 2019, No. 5, p. 16-17, with Dr. Ulrich WormAnnotation to Higher Regional Court of Berlin (Kammergericht Berlin), Germany, Judgment of 25 September 2018 — (4) 161 Ss 28/18 (35/18), in: Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (EuZW), 2019, No. 1, p.
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Mar 27, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Benjamin Beck |Ulrich Worm |Anna Lohoff
With an effective date of February 17, 2024, the Digital Services Act ("DSA") will start applying to most online platform providers in less than a year. The DSA, which introduces due diligence and transparency obligations regarding algorithmic decision-making by online platforms, such as social media, video sharing or e-commerce, entered into force on November 16, 2022.
